Industrial Shop Photos | Light is Light
Whenever possible I try to use what light is available, but most of the time I have to add a few of my own. If I can I will grab light sources that are already present in the shop and use them to my advantage.
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24
Sep
23
Sep
Fall Colors & Lockerby Mine
Flying out towards my cottage today I grabbed this quick shot of First Nickel Lockerby Mine. I actually have some fond memories of this site when I was a kid. My Grandfather was an on site security guard there and at one point lived on site with my Grandmother. They had this huge mobile home right on the mine site. I would go visit him regularly as our cottage was not far away. I remember staying overnight there and even riding my bike around the site. I was about 8 or 9 at the time. Fond memories for sure.
20
Sep
Anmar – Big Machinery For Big Plans
Anmar Mechanical & Electrical Contractors LTD pack a big punch when it comes to some of their heavy equipment. I had a chance to grab a few images while observing one of their latest projects. I’m looking forward to creating some unique images for this impressive company.
18
Sep
Mining 24/7
It’s around the clock in the Canadian Mining Industry operations as everyone knows that time is money is ………well………..good. I enjoy photographing mine sites at night as it brings a whole set of new challenges to the table.
16
Sep
Stuck In A Pipe
Applying the first coat of a chemical adhesive that will bond the rubber lining to this custom pipe.
16
Sep
Canadian Gold Refinery
Another stage in refining more Gold from the tailings left over from previous gold mines. Most of the images I have created for this company have been used in their Investors brochure and website.
“Mr. Jochen Schäfer ist absolutely impressed with your work and sends many thanks for your great work. So thank you very much for your work. Kind regards Martina Davis United Commodity AG”
9
Sep
(not the magazine) Mining Life & Exploration News Magazine Cover Photo
Note: this is not the magazine website. Well another one of my images made the cover of the latest Mining Life & Exploration News Magazine. This photo is of Xstrata’s Nickel Rim (which is now Glencore Xstrata)
That I captured during one of my aerial adventures.
Here is the original uncropped photo
James Hodgins is a Sudbury Ontario based Mining Industrial Photographer.
6
Sep
To Use Stock Photography Or Not? I say Nay!
I recently received an email inquiring the use of some of my images for a companies marketing materials and within the email was a common sentence I usually see “We have done an exhaustive search of the stock photo sights and are coming up short”. I know that stock photography is readily available and it could be useful when in a tight deadline (unless you create your marketing material a year in a advance) but why would a company want another companies image on their marketing material? On several occasions walking through industry trade shows I have seen the same image on several different booths. Shouldn’t the images in your marketing material be of your company? Your employees? Your products and services? The cost of stock photography to cover the companies branding usually ends up costing more than hiring a professional photographer to create custom images of the company. Your company! I always wondered if the people working the trade show booth get embarrassed when someone asks them who the person is in the picture and they reply “Oh. That’s just a stock photo”. Now I know not all marketing material requires custom images and most of the time advertising companies are on a tight deadline and need something fast, but, if time is available I do encourage to seek out a professional photographer for their photography needs.
I would like to hear other sides of this from other photographers, advertising agencies and companies in regards to this so please comment.
5
Sep
Industrial Photography Fabrication
I guess I would consider myself a fabricator of images. Just like all the things mining industrial I photograph there is no quick and easy. I simply don’t pull the images out of my magic camera but carefully plan and execute my “formula” for a creative image. I piece together several components including subject matter, composition, lighting, exposure and post production to create or fabricate my final image. I might seem slower than most photographers but in the end it’s what the client ultimately wants. Quality over quantity….I hope.
4
Sep
Industrial Sized Sandbox
Getting ready to sandblast this customized pipe before it heads of to be lined with rubber and then finished off in the spray booth.
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